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Grex > Music3 > #21: Weblog: Journalism About Music | |
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orinoco
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response 12 of 32:
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Nov 18 15:12 UTC 2002 |
Maybe Grace Slick doesn't pay so much attention to Spiro Agnew's opinion.
I'd be sorta disappointed if she did, actually.
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jaklumen
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response 13 of 32:
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Dec 12 05:21 UTC 2002 |
resp:10 I'm not sure if that's always been 100% the case-- her VH1
airtime showed the years. This picture, however, is quite flattering.
resp:9 Interesting article. I don't agree with her sentiments,
however, that the favored drugs of the 60's are more benign than many
pharmeceutical drugs. I tend to favor the opinion that any drug can be
life-threatening, and medical assistance is important. People have
unique enough body chemistry individually that reactions can vary. One
drug my psychiatrist had me try yielded potentially fatal side effects,
and I was knocked for a loop for two months. Not everyone will have
that result, however; I was the one in 20 with those side effects.
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happyboy
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response 14 of 32:
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Jan 2 08:25 UTC 2003 |
which favored drugs? meth, coke, heroin?
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jaklumen
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response 15 of 32:
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Jan 3 05:10 UTC 2003 |
I forget-- you'd have to read the article.
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mcnally
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response 16 of 32:
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Jan 13 21:50 UTC 2003 |
For lack of a more obvious place to put this breaking story:
http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2003/01/13/townshend/index.html
Pete Townshend is arrested in child pornography case
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Jan. 13, 2003 | LONDON (AP) --
Rock star Pete Townshend of The Who has been arrested on suspicion
of possessing indecent images of children, police said Monday.
Scotland Yard announced that a 57-year-old man had been arrested
on suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children
and of incitement to distribute indecent images of children.
Police, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the
suspect was Townshend. He has not been charged with a crime,
which would come later under the British legal system.
Townshend, 57, said Saturday he had used an Internet Web site
advertising child pornography.
<snip>
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mcnally
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response 17 of 32:
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Jan 13 22:13 UTC 2003 |
I cut the article off after the first few paragraphs, figuring that anyone
who wanted more details could check the URL or search their own preferred
news source, but in fairness to Townsend I should have included his
response, presented later in the article.
> Townshend said in his Saturday statement that he was not a
> pedophile and only used the porn site once while doing research
> for an autobiography dealing with his own suspected childhood
> sexual abuse.
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cyklone
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response 18 of 32:
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Jan 14 00:11 UTC 2003 |
The whole story has a really weird feeling to me because of a phone
conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a musician/computer geek
friend of mine in California. We were talking about Entwhistle's death and
the constant Who "reunion" tours. I mentioned I once heard Townshend claim
he agreed to doing the shows out of a sense of financial obligation to the
others, who made far less than he did as the songwriter. My friend said
he thought the band had more on Pete than just "taking care of old
friends." As he put it, "they may have something else, like pictures of
Pete and little boys." I laughed a bit, as Pete had already "outed"
himself to some degree over the years. Now, though, it's beginning to look
like my friend was right.
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mcnally
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response 19 of 32:
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Jan 14 22:32 UTC 2003 |
Another interesting music-business story: apparently a police crackdown
on a piracy/bootlegging operation in Holland has recovered a number of
long-lost unreleased Beatles master tapes, recorded during the sessions
for an aborted album between "The Beatles" (aka "The White Album") and
"Let it Be"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2646921.stm
The story describes the tapes as containing "dozens" of entire songs.
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cyklone
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response 20 of 32:
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Jan 15 03:15 UTC 2003 |
I read a long article about that today. However, they said they were not the
multi-track masters (held by the record company) but instead are the audio
tapes for someone who was filming the sessions.
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dbratman
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response 21 of 32:
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Jan 18 00:03 UTC 2003 |
And it wasn't "an aborted album", it was unused material from the
sessions which eventually produced "Let It Be".
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tpryan
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response 22 of 32:
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Jan 23 04:02 UTC 2003 |
I think it was one of the Bootles refered to as the
"Come Back" album. For instance, a track by Paul "Teddy Boy",
that had a different version on his first album. From the
"Let it Be" era, where the extra American LP was called "Get Back",
a collection of singles and such.
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mcnally
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response 23 of 32:
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Feb 3 22:22 UTC 2003 |
Wire services are reporting that Phil Spector has been arrested
on suspicion of murder.
> (AP) Legendary record producer Phil Spector was arrested Monday
> for investigation of homicide after the body of a woman was found
> at a home in this Los Angeles suburb, authorities said.
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krj
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response 24 of 32:
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Apr 8 19:59 UTC 2003 |
Washington Post has an online interview with Ira Kaplan of the band
Yo La Tengo:
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/sp_entertainment_kaplan0
40803.htm
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mcnally
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response 25 of 32:
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Apr 8 20:54 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for the pointer, though the interview questions were surprisingly
lame..
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krj
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response 26 of 32:
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May 8 19:18 UTC 2003 |
If you wondered where the term "World Music" came from, here's a memoir
from Ian A. Anderson of FRoots magazine, who was one of the plotters,
back 15 years or so ago...
http://www.frootsmag.com/content/features/world_music_history/
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krj
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response 27 of 32:
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May 15 16:20 UTC 2003 |
Just found this website run by Robert Christgau, the lead music
critic for the Village Voice since forever.
http://www.robertchristgau.com
Claims to include all of his "Consumer Guide" reviews since 1967.
Sorting through albums by year and artist seems to work nicely.
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dbratman
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response 28 of 32:
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May 18 23:28 UTC 2003 |
Most of the rock groups I like aren't even on his list. What the f?
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krj
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response 29 of 32:
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Nov 2 17:54 UTC 2003 |
Here's a good profile of Emmylou Harris from UK paper The Guardian,
a mini-biography covering her entire career.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1075750,00.html
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krj
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response 30 of 32:
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Dec 24 17:59 UTC 2003 |
Here's an entertaining profile of an underground, unlicensed
radio station in the Minneapolis area:
http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1203/article11780.asp
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jaklumen
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response 31 of 32:
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Dec 27 09:59 UTC 2003 |
Entertaining it was.
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krj
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response 32 of 32:
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Jul 2 17:13 UTC 2004 |
The Guardian (UK) follows up the 17th anniversary of the invention
of "world music" as a marketing concept, with interviews with some
of the major players, including Joe Boyd, Charlie Gillett, and
FRoots' Ian Anderson.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1249391,00.html
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